On another t=
hought I am writing a code/script for taking a backup of all the nodes in a=
single DC , renaming data files with some uid and then merging them . The =
storage however
would happen on some storage medium nas for ex which would be in the same =
DC. This would help in data copying a non hefty job.

Hopefully the one single DC data(from all the nodes in this DC) should=
give me the complete data just in case if RF >=3D1 .

The next improvement would be do do the same on incremental snapshots =
so that once you have a=A0baseline=A0data all the rest would be collecting =
chunks of increments alone and merging it with the original global snapshot=
.